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020 _a978019212798
040 _aRBU-Library
041 _aEnglish
082 _a610.9
_bW918
100 _aWootton, David
245 _aBad Medicine: Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
260 _aNew York:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2013.
500 _aIncludes further readings and index.
502 _aWe all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today. - ;Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm does it continue to do?. The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC.
650 _aMedicine - Europe -History.
_aMedicine - United States - History.
_aMedical - History.
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